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PNG is lossless, so the quality will be better.

• detaro 8y ago
  so is GIF.
  • ec109685 8y ago
    Oops. The dithering is what makes the gif’s look off, unless the original color is carefully chosen. PNG’s do alpha better at least.
    • rubbingalcohol 8y ago
      Not 8 bit PNGs. Those are more or less exactly like GIFs, dithering, palette transparency and all.
      • detaro 8y ago
        As far as I know they can have a transparency value for each palette entry, instead of just binary transparency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Transparency_of_image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Tran... > For paletted images, alpha values can be added to palette entries. The number of such values stored may be less than the total number of palette entries, in which case the remaining entries are considered fully opaque.
      • donatj 8y ago
        8-bit PNG's can do alpha. A lot of popular tools like Photoshop however don't want to output alpha enabled 8-bit PNGs.